James L. Crowley, Professeur,
Grenoble I.N.P.

Research Activities:

James L. Crowley directs the PRIMA
Research
Project group of the LIG
laboratory at the INRIA
Grenoble research center in
Montbonnot, France. He holds the
post of Professor at the Institut
National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG),
where he teaches courses in Computer Vision, Signal Processing, Pattern
Recognition and Artificial Intelligence at l'ENSIMAG
(Ecole National Superieure d'Informatique et de Mathematiques
Appliquées). From 2003 through 2006, Professor Crowley has
served as director for the UMR GRAVIR laboratory (UMR 5527 CNRS, INPG,
UJF, INRIA). Professor Crowley has edited two books, five special
issues of journals, and authored over 250 articles on computer vision
and mobile robotics, with over 10,500 Citations (Google
Scholar) and an h-number of 49.

In Sept. 2011, James Crowley was appointed as Senior Member of the l'Institut Universitaire de France (IUF).
In Mar. 2014, James Crowley was named Chevalier de l'Ordre Nationale de Mérite.

Professor Crowley directs
INRIA Project Group PRIMA,
at the INRIA Grenoble
Rhone-Alpes Research Centre.The objective of project PRIMA
is to elaborate the science and technology of smart, interactive
environments. An interactive environment is a environment capable of
perception, action and communication with human inhabitants. PRIMA
seeks to render environments sensitive to people and their activities.
With this ability, the environment can become a collaborator, capable
of offering services based on informatics and communications
technologies. PRIMA is part of the Grenoble
Informatics Laboratory (LIG)
at the Universities of Grenoble.

The research activities of
professor Crowley combines 4 themes:

Invariant, Robust visual
perception based on appearance,

Robust, Component-based
architectures for perception based
on autonomic programming techniques,

Observation and modeling of
human acitvities based on situation
modeling,

New forms of multi-modal
man-machine interaction based on machine
perception and situation modeling.

In 2008, Professor Crowley
directed the creation of the Master
of Science in
Informatics at
Grenoble (MoSIG). The MoSIG
program offeres a 2 year, European
Standard, English-language, Master of Science with
specialisations in Graphics-Vision-Robotics, AI and the Web, Mobile
Interactive Systems, and Parallel Distributed Embedded Systems.

From 1994 to 1998, Prof.
Crowley served coordinator ot the
European
Computer Vision Network (ECVnet), the EC "Network of Excellence" in
Computer Vision. From 1993 to 2001, Professor Crowley coordinated the
marie-Curie networks SMART and SMART II whose subject was the
development of techniques for surveillance and monitoring. He has
served as the technical coordinator of project ESPRIT basic research
project BRA 3038/EP 7108, "Vision as Process" from 1989 to 1995. He has
participated in a total of 14 European Projects since 1986 including
the early FP II project P940 "Depth and Motion Analysis".

Professor Crowley was one of the first research faculty hired in
January 1980 for the Carnegie
Mellon UniversityRobotics
Institute .
From
1982 to 1985 he directed the Laboratory for Household
Robotics at CMU, where he developed systems for world modeling and
navigation using computer vision and ultrasonic range sensors. Versions
of these systems have been used in several commercial mobile robots.

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